Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990mnras.245..350d&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 245, July 15, 1990, p. 350-357.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Galactic Bulge, Mass To Light Ratios, Missing Mass (Astrophysics), Optical Thickness, Spiral Galaxies, Angular Velocity, Brightness Distribution, Dark Matter
Scientific paper
Disney et al. (1989) have argued that the observational data are consistent with disk galaxies being optically thick, particularly in their inner regions. Here, these results are used to reinterpret the radial surface-brightness distributions of spiral galaxies. It is found that the fitting of a profile with an absorbed disk plus bulge leads to both disk and bulge masses (mass in luminous material) that are larger than previously assumed. In addition, it is shown how the rotation velocity, as determined from optical data in the central regions, may systematically underestimate the true rotational velocity in an optically thick disk. If the bulges of late-type galaxies are as large as is hypothesized, then this has important implications in models of galaxy evolution and galaxy dynamics. The model greatly reduces or even eliminates the need for dark matter within the optical radius; it removes a major argument against S0 evolution from later-type galaxies; it accounts for the similarity of rotation curve forms among galaxies of different morphological types; and it leads to a further reappraisal of the observed constancy of the extrapolated central surface brightness of galactic disks.
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